Note 229 — PHARMACOLOGIA. ON THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINAL BODIES, AND ON THE CLASSIFICATIONS FOUNDED ON THEM. (continued 2)
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The truth of this statement has been very satisfactorily established by the experiments of Orfila (Toxicologie générale considerée sous les Rapports de la Physiologie, de la Pathologie, et de la Medicine légale) as well as by several that have been performed in this country.
Tortosa (Istituzioni di Med. For.) has remarked that Opium may act mortally without losing much of its weight in the stomach—I should question the truth of this assertion.